To celebrate Father's day this Sunday, video games publisher Electronic Arts - commonly referred to as simply EA - will be offering significant discounts on some of its most popular Android titles including FIFA 12, Need for Speed, Plants vs. Zombies and Dead Space.
Gameloft has officially announced a Batman: Dark Knight Rises mobile game in conjunction with the upcoming movie, which will support devices running both Google's Android and Apple's iOS mobile operating systems.
Although Android is the most popular mobile OS in terms of reach and daily activations of devices, developers still tend to favor Apple's iOS when it comes to releasing new apps and games.
For all of its strengths, one drawback of owning an Android device is the increasing number of threats from malware. While Windows Phone and iOS are largely considered to be safe from attack, there are scores of fake .apk files and other non-niceties lurking about aimed at those using Google's market-leading mobile operating system.
Smartphones and tablets are already extremely popular, and with the percentage of people owning one of these devices rising rapidly across the world, it is worth while considering how long we actually spend looking at our phones and tablets on a daily basis. In work places and offices, the use of visual display units generally needs to be monitored so surely users should be able to achieve a certain level of visual comfort when it comes to using mobile devices?
After more than two years of work on bringing new features and reaching out to other mobile platforms, Foursquare completely redesigned their apps for iOS and Android. The updated app, numbered 5.0, offers a much better user-experience and a new recommendation system. We’ve discussed both right after the jump!
The recently-released Samsung Galaxy S III is a powerhouse matched only by a couple of devices within the smartphone market, but that hasn't stopped one modder from pushing the boundaries just that little bit farther.
Although Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is undoubtedly Google's strongest mobile OS iteration to date, the length of time it has taken to trickle out to the many hundreds of Android devices has shrouded the release. With quite a few improvements plus a beautiful visual makeover, it was supposed to bridge the gap between tablet and smartphone, but with the majority of devices still awaiting that elusive OTA update, the release - if not the OS itself - has to go down as a fail.
Weather apps are not usually that interesting, and we're usually no more interested than the majority of you guys, but this particular weather app piqued our interest, if only because it uses fancy-looking radar images. We're suckers for the shiny, you know!
It may not be the of our hopes and dreams rolled into one, but Android-owning golf fanatics have a new little release to play with as the mobile division of Electronic Arts have pushes out Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2012 for Android. One of the video gaming industry’s biggest franchises is certainly set to make an impact on Android owners with its crisp, sharp graphics and adrenaline-filled swinging action.
